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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…those pesky kids from the Mystery Inc gang. Despite the opportunity to run off some flippant comments on yet another DTV title, Rodney actually treats the disc with great respect,… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…direction. At the beginning, he has these rules. They’re really funny; they’re the “Peter rules.” He would just come down hard, saying that “Turtles don’t have fingernails! Don’t put fingernails… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…cartoon produced for distributor Pathé. The impact from Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, who had hit sound screens just a year earlier, is immediately clear, with the film opening on the… |
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Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds
…their first film out. It was really inspiring to be around a group of people who were stoked to make their first film. “I remember being a young animator on… |
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Elmer Bernstein dies at 82
…achievements can be read about here: LEGENDARY FILM COMPOSER ELMER BERNSTEIN DIES AT 82 LOS ANGELES – Legendary and amazingly prolific film composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the memorable theme… |
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Horton Hears a Who!
…ours. And also of note, the film is blessedly free of bodily function jokes — a rare treat in modern animated films! Funny Carol Burnett shows a different side in… |
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Disney announces Moana to set sail for Blu-ray combo pack and 3D edition March 7
…• Theatrical Short Film: “Inner Workings” – With introduction by the filmmakers, is the story of the internal struggle between a man’s pragmatic, logical side and his free-spirited, adventurous half…. |
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\\Toy Story\\ added to the National Film Registry
In its first year of eligibility, Pixar’s first feature film, \\Toy Story\\, has been added to the {{link http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-262.html National Film Registry}} according to the head of the Library of… |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu shaped the Characters’ Designs
…1951 classic inspire you in any way? KA: Not directly. I watched the original animated film when I was young but for this film, because the look of Tim Burton’s… |
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Platige Image treads Paths of Hate
…involved in an animated film by the same artist. Entitled Paths of Hate, this time the film is a cinema production. At the moment, the first trailer promoting the film… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
…Whistling films allowed for a playful crossover of his radio and film careers. In the role of Wally “the Fox” Benton, a writer-actor of the kind of hugely successful murder… |
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How To Train Your Dragon 2
…ago that the first How To Train Your Dragon film might herald in an age where DreamWorks could be a critical powerhouse. But what has been their top reviewed film… |
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Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels
…Walks and Timing • Runs and Run Cycles • Personality Runs and Timing • Silhouetting • Dialogue and Lip Sync • Laughter • Takes • Eyes and Expressions Chapter 9… |
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
…Ann Miller, Ricardo Montalban, Walter Pidgeon, The Ritz Brothers, Dean Stockwell, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Weissmuller and Henny Youngman among many more “hey I know that face” faces. The film was… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…Keanu finds himself on the run, the film seems so intent on making itself so different from the original that it eventually runs out of steam, heading off in several… |
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Animated News takes a look at Dreamer…
…as “flooding the market.” The very same trend in CG animated films is happening at present, due to the runaway success of a little studio called Pixar. Then, of course,… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…this film initially reminded me of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, until I remembered that his film would not be out yet for a few years after this cartoon was created…. |
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Michael Giacchino: not so short on ideas for Pixar Shorts!
…his filmmaking. He’s one of the most unique guys I’ve worked with. AV: He’s got a very different way of using the score. MG: It’s somehow interactive with the film… |
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Cinderella
…most popular villain of all time. However one felt about the actual film (I myself haven’t re-visited it since its theatrical run nearly 20 years ago!), from a financial standpoint,… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…exactly the film you would imagine a powerhouse like Pixar making if they were to create a film aimed exclusively at children. The problem is Pixar doesn’t make movies aimed… |
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The Ten Commandments
…best that film on one way: by continuing the story and countering the biggest criticism with the earlier film, that once Moses’ people had made good their escape from Egypt,… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…of flying in the film, the choice of adding new scenes in with the closing credits, and how the film became Ghibli’s first true financial success. The Producer’s Perspective: Collaborating… |
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Eloise actress Mouser honored with KIDS FIRST! award
…Award from the KIDS FIRST! Film and Video Festival at the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival on Oct. 14. Mouser accepted the award for her performance in Me, Eloise,… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…of new animated features includes six new films from Pixar Animation Studios, four from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and the first four in a series of direct-to-DVD films featuring Disney… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…infamous “pre-1948” library that eventually became public domain, Jackson created the film independently of original copyright owners Warners, who dictated he could only reference films from the then United Artists-owned… |
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The Croods
…When the rules are “survival of the fittest”, making a film look good (or sometimes making a film look better than it is) is job number one for these guys…. |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…Ice Age films have never been the most complicated of family fare, and in this day and age when such films seem to feel the need to throw in a… |
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The Pirate Fairy
This fun family film keeps up the quality of the Fairies franchise, serving as a clever prequel to Peter Pan, while in some ways almost being a super-hero film for… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…that film too, so it does fit. The story is fairly lightweight, and at times Pan seems relegated to the sidelines, almost a secondary character in his own follow-up film!… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…that had seen a theatrical feature emerge as something of a series capper for the original run, which ended in the same year, 1966. A year later, Hanna-Barbera teamed again… |
